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Evolution, Big Bang Polls Omitted From NSF Report

Posted by Soulskill on from the don't-let-the-rest-of-the-world-know-how-stupid-we-really-are dept.

cremeglace writes "In an unusual last-minute edit that has drawn flak from the White House and science educators, a federal advisory committee omitted data on Americans' knowledge of evolution and the Big Bang from a key report. The data shows that Americans are far less likely than the rest of the world to accept that humans evolved from earlier species and that the universe began with a big bang."

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  1. Warm, salty, gritty... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    First Post.

  2. Re:So? by Chris+Burke · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I still now that the 'big bang' was that hominid Lucy getting laid, resulting in the first darwinian instance of 'natural selection' whether the WH admits it or not.

    Dude, yeah our education system sucks but where the hell did you go to school?!

    Her name was Henrieta.

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  3. Re:So? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    The above is the most important point in the thread.

    I thought the post about banging Lucy was pretty important to the discussion.

  4. Big Bang is stupid by lordmetroid · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    There was no Big Bang, first of all the current theory that is used to explained the observed facts states that the universe started out as a singularity so it was not big and considering there were no molecules present that could propgate any sound it didn't start out with a bang neither.

  5. Re:So? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I thought the post about banging Lucy was pretty important to the discussion.

    Do you know her number?